Patients with solid tumors, breast cancer, melanoma, liver cancer, or pancreatic cancer can come to Stanford with the assurance that skilled, experienced surgeons are backed by powerful interdisciplinary insights and research.

The insights emanate in part from our renowned Comprehensive Cancer Center where surgical oncologists work side by side with radiologists, medical oncologists, and microvascular surgeons to ensure the very best in cancer care.

Our surgical oncology specialty also includes:

• The Stanford Pancreas Center (PDF) which completes over a hundred procedures for pancreatic cancer each year. Many involve complex, four-stage treatments: high-speed CT imaging, surgery, chemotherapy, and cyberknife treatments (a Stanford invention) for radiation.
  
  
• The Asian Liver Center, which explores the use of genetic profiling to address the high incidence of hepatitis B and liver cancer in Asians and Asian-Americans.
  
  
• A stellar group of breast cancer researchers who not only study the biology and genetics of breast cancer so new treatments can emerge, but also treat women with breast cancer with the latest high tech interventions available.